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TRAUMATIC STRESS Alleged Veterans Home of California shooter and suicide victim Albert Wong had been recently forced to leave a program for veterans with PTSD. State Sen. Bill Dodd was at a meeting in Napa County about wireless emergency alerts this past Friday morning when the emergency alert on his phone went off, along with those of Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore and District 4 Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry.
Napa County Fire captain Chase Beckman says a gunman has taken ho... Two of the mental health workers killed by a former U.S. soldier at a California veterans home were psychologists who treated veterans with post-traumatic stress syndrome and the third victim was the program's the executive director. The Pathway Home program at the country's largest veterans home in Yountville said in a statement Friday that 42-years-old Jennifer Golick and 29-years-old Jennifer Gonzales were accomplished mental health therapists.
CalFire declared the North Coast wildfires contained in late October, leaving wine grape growers in Napa County and elsewhere to take account of how the blazes affected their vines and properties. Although few vineyards burned during the fires, growers had to deal with debris cleanup, repairing damaged infrastructure such as melted irrigation lines and preparing for winter rains.
Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the U.S. House, says Northern California's wildfires that destroyed 8,900 buildings and killed 42 people can serve as a national model for disaster response. Pelosi, of San Francisco, is joining other members of Congress on Saturday touring Sonoma and Napa counties, which were hard hit by the nearly two dozen fires that raged for more than a week in mid-October.
Tim Mondavi, front, wearing a white shirt, speaks to a guest during the 50th Anniversary of Robert Mondavi Winery. The late Robert Mondavi started the business with a modest loan.
Yamaha Motor Corp. recently opened an office at the airport in Napa County, Calif., for spraying agricultural land in Napa and Sonoma counties with its RMAX. These small aircraft can be used to assess the condition of vines using visual, infrared and near-infrared cameras more economically than manned aircraft and have other advantages such as being able to fly closer to vines or being used regularly to provide a pattern of vineyard development.